Ian Christie

Director Stephen Frears, film historian Ian Christie, and author and British film historian Richard Dacre discuss the unique qualities of The Man in the White Suit as well as the legacy of its director, Alexander Mackendrick.

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than previously acknowledged. This documentary, featuring clips from a remarkable range of films, celebrates the early years of British filmmaking and spans from such pioneers as George Albert Smith and Cecil Hepworth to such later figures as Anthony Asquith, Maurice Elvey and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock.

A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him.

Глубоко в Карпатах лежит таинственная страна Трансильвания — мир, в котором зло встречается на каждом шагу, мир, в котором опасность оживает с заходом солнца, и где монстры, живущие в глубине человеческих кошмаров, обретают форму. В этот мир попадает легендарный охотник на чудовищ Ван Хельсинг, рождённый на страницах романа «Дракула» Брэма Стокера.

Доктор Брюс Бэннер (ученый, работающий над изобретением новой бомбы) подвергся воздействию гамма-лучей и превратился в Халка — существо невероятной физической силы, которое в состоянии ярости становится огромным зеленым монстром.Его преследуют военные под предводительством генерала Росса, ему приходится бежать через всю страну. В конце концов, у него возникает любовная история с генеральской дочкой Бетти…

«Люди в черном 2» продолжает рассказ о приключениях двух элитных полицейских — агента Кея и агента Джея среди инопланетян. Со времени их предыдущих похождений прошло четыре года.Все эти годы агент Кей вел размеренный образ жизни, в то время как агент Джей продолжал бесстрашно трудиться в рядах самой секретной организации в мире. Расследуя самое обычное дело, агент Джей натыкается на следы дьявольски изощренного заговора, задуманного Серлиной, злобным монстром, обитающим на Земле в образе сексуальнейшей модели.

Documentary about the making of Powell and Pressburger's 1947 film "Black Narcissus."

A documentary on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

Nancy Franklin was so overwhelmed by the film 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) that she traveled from New York to the Western Isles of Scotland to see the places where it was made and to find out more about the people who made it. This documentary retraces her steps on a subsequent visit.